The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 2, sentence 29

And at last, being reduced to extremity, clad in garments worn and ragged, which like clouds vainly obscuring the Lord of the Day, could not hide, but rather increased, the beauty of his form, with nothing left to eat or drink, he determined to abandon the body.

Who acts: clouds, Umra · What happens: reduce, clad, wear, rag, obscure, not hide · To what, where: last, garments, Lord, beauty, body

This is a sentence of «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, A Sleep and a Dream., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (clouds, Umra), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 reduced	cc
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 last	case
3	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 reduced	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 last	punct
5	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 reduced	aux:pass
6	reduced	reduce	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 extremity	case
8	extremity	extremity	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 reduced	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 clad	punct
10	clad	clad	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 reduced	conj
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 garments	case
12	garments	garment	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 clad	obl
13	worn	wear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 garments	acl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 ragged	cc
15	ragged	rag	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 worn	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 clouds	punct
17	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 clouds	nsubj
18	like	like	ADP	_	19 clouds	case
19	clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 garments	conj
20	vainly	vainly	ADV	_	21 obscuring	advmod
21	obscuring	obscure	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 clouds	acl
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 Lord	det
23	Lord	Lord	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 obscuring	obj
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 Day	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 Day	det
26	Day	Day	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 Lord	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 hide	punct
28	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 hide	aux
29	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 hide	advmod
30	hide	hide	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	23 Lord	parataxis
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 increased	punct
32	but	but	CCONJ	_	34 increased	cc
33	rather	rather	ADV	_	34 increased	advmod
34	increased	increase	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 reduced	conj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 beauty	punct
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 beauty	det
37	beauty	beauty	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 increased	obl
38	of	of	ADP	_	40 form	case
39	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 form	nmod:poss
40	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 beauty	nmod
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 nothing	punct
42	with	with	ADP	_	43 nothing	case
43	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	34 increased	parataxis
44	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	43 nothing	acl
45	to	to	PART	_	46 eat	mark
46	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	44 left	xcomp
47	or	or	CCONJ	_	48 drink	cc
48	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	46 eat	conj
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 determined	punct
50	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 determined	nsubj
51	determined	determine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 reduced	conj
52	to	to	PART	_	53 abandon	mark
53	abandon	abandon	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	51 determined	xcomp
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 body	det
55	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 abandon	obj
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 reduced	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	reduce	gerund · passive			last	to extremity result	vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2 «NP V NP.patient PP.extent PP.initial_state PP.result»: at last=Extent to extremity=Result
2	clad	participle			garments and clouds garments and clouds garments		tree rules
3	wear	participle		garments and clouds garments and clouds garments not said here			vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent
4	rag	participle					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
5	obscure	gerund	clouds garments and clouds garments and clouds not said here	the Lord of the Day		vainly property	vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent lord=Patient
6	not hide	could					vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	increase	participle		the beauty of Umra's form		nothing parataxis	vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
8	leave	participle					tree rules
9	eat	to-infinitive					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
10	drink	infinitive					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
11	determine	past	Umra				vn discover-84 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
12	abandon	to-infinitive	Umra not said here	the body			vn leave-51.2 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Theme body=Source
13	form		Umra				nom form «communication transitive»: poss=agent

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, Project Gutenberg book 68641 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 2, sentence 29